[mythtv-users] Re: MythTV : Little Sleep, Lots Of Reading...
I Failed.
Craig Longman
craigl at begeek.com
Mon Jun 9 14:28:02 EDT 2003
Isaac Richards wrote:
>>lirc on the pvr uses the i2c interface, and that's the reason for
>>possibly needing to recompile, right? but if you had a recent kernel,
>>then it might not be necessary. the i2c and the v4l(2) stuff are whats
>>important for the kernl, is this correct?
>>
>>
>Nope. Kernel should have a new enough version of i2c, and it should have v4l
>already compiled. Don't need v4l2 in the kernel for the ivtv driver, so
>everything should be just fine with the stock kernel.
>
hmm. i could have sworn i remember reading something when i was first
setting up that indicated you needed some i2c enhancements that were
only available in more recent kernels (2.4.19+ is what i think i
remember). now, i actually run debian, so maybe the stable was too old,
but testing (and redhat 9) are recent enough.
>>> A better bitrate peak would be 4000, not 8000, for an average rate of
>>>2500. Having the peak bitrate too high can cause problems.
>>>
>>>
>>well, this is certainly not always the case. if i drop the bitrate
>>below an average of about 5Mbps, i get choppy audio and video. now that
>>i've patch mplayer, i should test to see if it is just myth, or the
>>actual recording thats the problem.
>>
>>
>We're talking peak bitrate here, not average -- he's already recommended
>dropping the average bitrate down to 2.5Mbps, which wouldn't work for you as
>you've said.
>
ahh, i see what you meant there, i misunderstood what jarod had written.
sorry.
cheers,
CraigL->Thx();
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